[Reader-list] [Announcements] LEA May '05: RE: Searching Our Origins Part Two

[nisar keshvani]

*sincere apologies for cross-posting*

Leonardo Electronic Almanac: May 2005
ISSN#1071-4391
art | science | technology - a definitive voice since 1993
http://lea.mit.edu

In May's LEA, we wrap up our two-part special revolving around the 
theme: RE: Searching Our Origins. This time round, guest editors 
Paul Brown and Catherine Mason have selected five essays.

To begin, Frieder Nake discusses the compArt project and how it is 
creating an elaborate dynamic digital medium for computer art, 
where he describes four subspaces of the compArt medium.

Robin Oppenheimer then takes us through the world of regional 
media arts histories and their contributions to electronic arts. 
She summarizes examples of late 20th century regional media arts 
histories research in the U.S. Pacific Northwest and traces some
of their complex connections to major art movements and artists, 
and their interconnectivity and interrelated in complex and 
unexpected ways.

In Anne Laforet's piece, she examines how the preservation of net 
art has become a core issue, especially for the cultural 
institutions which have acquired it, as the advent of the
Internet, with its inundation of data, makes the longevity of 
artworks difficult, if not impossible, to assess.

Following that, Robert Edgar enlightens us on the aesthetic, 
economic, technological and personal contexts involved with being 
an early adopter of personal computer  programming as an art 
form.

To conclude, Cynthia Beth Rubin examines the innovations by 
artists working with early digital imaging software prior to 1988 
in her essay, *Digital by Choice: Explorations of Early 
Software*.

Delving deep into LEA's archives, One From the Vault revives Paul 
Warren's Alternative Virtual Biennial Exhibition – An Introductory 
Essay and Artist Profiles, which was first
published in LEA in May 1995.

Michael Punt's eclectic offerings for Leonardo Reviews include 
reviews dealing with film and music, such as Rene Van Peer's 
*Frith in Retroperspective* and *Allies*, and Amy Ione's *Proteus: 
A Nineteenth Century Vision*. It also features Andrea Dahlberg's 
review of *Edward Said: The Last Interview*, whose passing leaves 
the world without "a great intellectual and an articulate and 
credible spokesman for Palestine."

We also take a look at the contents and selected abstracts from 
the third 2005 issue of *Leonardo* while ISAST News sees a 
continuation of our series on the *The Pacific Rim New Media 
Summit: A Pre-Symposium to ISEA2006*, coupled with a statement 
from the Urbanity and Locative Media working group.

To end, Bytes (featuring announcements and calls for papers) 
introduces Amy Ione's latest book, "Innovation and Visualization" 
and LEA's latest call for the upcoming special, Wild Nature and 
the Digital Life.

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